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worst near accidents I've seen 24-Sep-2010 At 3:13:10 PM Dave J

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Great topic (this and the big falls one)

I can think of a few near accidents.

Here's the first

Doing London Calling with Nick Sutter ...an age ago. There are a line of 3 rings up the face but to get to them you do this big traverse out along this flake. To reduce rope drag we'd come up with this scheme where you climbed on 2 ropes one attached by screw gate for the traverse and the other for the rings with the idea being that you unscrew and ditch the first rope for the top section. So nick storms out across the first section...all good, not even breathing too hard, shakes out at the rest, checks out the headwall, unscrews the gate, ditches first rope and then says something thing like.

"oh no ...out of sequence" (can't remember the exact wording but something like that)
the first of the bolts is still another 2 meters up and nick is stuck in the middle of the wall with absolutely nothing clipped and no real option but to carry on climbing.

He got to the next bolt an clipped and everyone was happy. I cant remember if he did the route that go or the next ... I didn't seem important.